Ernest C. Rolls

Ernest Charles Rolls (born Josef Adolf Darewski; 6 June 1890 – 20 January 1964) was a British theatre producer, of Russian Jewish heritage, who lived and worked in Britain and Australia.

These included Ragmania (1912) and Full Inside (1914), which featured several Australian chorus girls and where he met singer and comedienne Jennie Benson (1884–1979); they married in 1920.

Many of his productions were characterised by the copious use of glamorous female chorus and ballet performers, and lavish sets, in the style of Charles B. Cochran.

Though his career in London faltered as a result, he put on a pantomime, Aladdin, and his wife Jennie was then invited to perform on J. C. Williamson's new Tivoli vaudeville circuit in Australia.

He produced Aladdin in Melbourne, with Jennie Benson in the title role, and regularly visited New York to secure the rights to new revues and musicals.

He joined forces with entrepreneur George Marlow, but as a result of the growth of talking pictures and the Great Depression, the Marlow-Rolls company went into voluntary liquidation.